Legal Opinion
William E. Burns v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 8, 1968No. 7049PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, Chief Judge.
This is a diversity action brought by plaintiff-appellant Burns in the district of Massachusetts against Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a number of its employees, hereinafter collectively MIT, and Research Corporation. It is conceded that Massachusetts law governs.
Plaintiff alleges that in 1943 he was negotiating with an agency of the United States known as NDRC with respect to certain secret ideas of his; that in 1944 he was informed by MIT that it had been requested to assess his ideas and furnish NDRC with an opinion; that MIT stated that “plaintiff’s…
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